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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree.

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: About Always Am Degree Found Human Interaction Least Nature Person Shy Some Something Who Will I Am

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I saw my parents as model grown-ups, and their manner, their silence, informed my sense of what adulthood looked and felt like. Grown-ups behaved rationally and calmly. Grown-ups worked during the day and came home at night and sat down for drinks and passed the evening quietly.

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: Adulthood Behaved Calmly Came Day Down Drinks Evening Felt Grown-Ups Home Informed Like Looked Manner Model Night Parents Passed Quietly Rationally Sat Saw Sense Silence Worked

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The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet at whim. There is a lack of self-consciousness and a fluidity to it that is absent from most human relationships. If someone acted that way to you, you'd feel claustrophobic pretty quickly. It's a boundary violation.

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: Absent Acted Boundary Claustrophobic Come Dog Dogs Feel Fill Hard Human Human Relationships Kinds Lack Most Pet Pretty Quickly Relationships Roles Self-Consciousness Someone Touch Violation Way Whim You

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Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our mothers. They wait for us, watch out for us, are completely fascinated by everything we do.

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: Become Concentrated Dogs Everything Fascinated Get Human Human Life Life Like More Mothers Much Older Our Out Short Short Life Spans Us Version Wait Watch

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I've always walked around with the sense that the world is not a safe place. I didn't get the spontaneous gene or the adventure one, really. After going through the day with its stresses, when I shut that door at night, I don't have to deal with anything but dinner, 'E.R.' and my bathrobe.

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: Adventure After Always Anything Around Day Deal Dinner Door Gene Get Going Night Place Really Safe Safe Place Sense Shut Spontaneous Stresses Through Walked World

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When you study a dog you love, you find beauty in every small detail, and so it is with Lucille: I have become enchanted by the small asymmetrical whorls of white fur on either side of her chest, and by her tail, which she carries in a high confident curve, and by her eyes, which are watchful and intelligent, the color of chestnuts.

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: Beauty Become Carries Chest Color Confident Curve Detail Dog Either Enchanted Every Eyes Find Fur Her High Intelligent Love Love You Lucille She Side Small Study Tail Watchful Which White You

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I don't think that the world would be a better place if everyone owned a dog, and I don't think that all relationships between dogs and their owners are good, healthy, or enriching.

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: Better Better Place Between Dog Dogs Enriching Everyone Good Healthy Owned Owners Place Relationships Think World Would

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The clothes are different: pre-dog, I used to be very finicky and self-conscious about how I looked; now I schlep around in the worst clothing - big heavy boots, baggy old sweaters, a hooded down parka from L.L. Bean that makes me look like an astronaut.

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: About Around Astronaut Baggy Bean Big Boots Clothes Clothing Different Down Heavy How Like Look Looked Makes Me Now Old Self-Conscious Sweaters Used Very Worst

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A lot of people, quite frankly, think intense attachments to animals are weird and suspect, the domain of people who can't quite handle attachments to humans.

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: Animals Domain Frankly Handle Humans Intense Lot People Quite Quite Frankly Suspect Think Weird Who

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For years, I ate the same foods every day, in exactly the same manner, at exactly the same times.

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: Ate Day Every Every Day Exactly Exactly The Same Foods Manner Same Times Years

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 8th, 1959

Died: June 3rd, 2002

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